Jessica and Austin Ham with their children, captured by Adrian Hawkins, NRHC Communications Manager. Did…
RanchingHeritageMarch 20, 2025
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Ranch Life Learning with Hank the Cowdog engages children in the fascinating world of ranching.…
RanchingHeritageMarch 11, 2025
By Bob Welch | Story from 2024 Fall Ranch Record This 1909 Charlie Russell painting,…
RanchingHeritageFebruary 25, 2025
Article from 2024 Winter Ranch Record; Written by Ross Hecox Winter rainfall and boggy pastures…
RanchingHeritageJanuary 6, 2025
When we think of the Christmas season, it's easy to focus on the sparkling lights,…
RanchingHeritageDecember 20, 2024
We couldn't have asked for a better 46th Annual Candlelight at the Ranch! Almost 8,000…
RanchingHeritageDecember 19, 2024
While many Christmas traditions have passed down through the centuries, the holiday has ever evolved…
RanchingHeritageDecember 9, 2024
Nominations are now open for the National Golden Spur Award and the Ranching Heritage Association…
RanchingHeritageDecember 4, 2024
Hank the Cowboy and Sally May are going head-to-head in the kitchen. It's true, even…
RanchingHeritageNovember 22, 2024
The National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University is accepting applications for an education…
RanchingHeritageNovember 12, 2024
As pioneers moved westward, the vast expanses of land often isolated them from each other…
RanchingHeritageOctober 29, 2024
The world of ranching is filled with history and tradition, and a diverse vocabulary reflects…
RanchingHeritageOctober 24, 2024
On October 5, 2024, the ranching and livestock communities joined together for the 46th Annual…
RanchingHeritageOctober 10, 2024
Story by Brenn Hill; Photos by Jessica Brandi Lifland Andy Hedges takes the stage…
RanchingHeritageOctober 1, 2024
Thank you for making the first-ever Ranch Life Summer Series a big hit! From cowdogs,…
RanchingHeritageOctober 1, 2024
2024 Year in Review at the Ranch The Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center Celebrated…
RanchingHeritageOctober 1, 2024
The 1890s HX chuck wagon is owned by Monica Hightower and still in use.…
RanchingHeritageSeptember 11, 2024
Ranch Verse was all it was made out to be: authentic, compelling and insightful. Poetry, songs and stories flowed…
RanchingHeritageAugust 13, 2024
Courtesy of Fairfax Media Archives. It is said that a good cowdog can do the…
RanchingHeritageJuly 26, 2024
In the midst of the most destructive wildfire in Texas history, the Smokehouse Creek Fire,…
RanchingHeritageJuly 12, 2024
Cowboys follow a set of codes during branding season that makes the work flow efficiently.
RanchingHeritageJuly 11, 2024
Before the smoke cleared, benevolent folks from across the nation overwhelmed the Panhandle with truckloads…
RanchingHeritageJuly 10, 2024
One-room ranch schoolhouses offered not just education but also a connection to community.
RanchingHeritageJuly 5, 2024
Now Hiring: Development Manager | National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University & Ranching…
RanchingHeritageJune 27, 2024
Ranching Heritage Association Presents Top Cowboying Award to Lifetime Cowboy Photo by Kelli Brown…
RanchingHeritageJune 27, 2024
Ranching and Livestock Industries Present Top Award to South Texas Legend Stephen J. “Tio”…
RanchingHeritageJune 20, 2024
Ballads were just the beginning of Andy Hedges’s admiration for the industry.
RanchingHeritageJune 17, 2024
Rainfall and boggy pastures don’t prevent Oklahoma rancher Shannon Hall from feeding his cows, thanks…
RanchingHeritageJune 14, 2024
Ten years! The Summer Stampede Western Art & Gear Show presented by Capital Farm Credit,…
RanchingHeritageJune 6, 2024
The National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech University is accepting applications for two marketing…
RanchingHeritageJune 4, 2024
JA Ranch Milk & Meat House c. 1880 Built around 1880 while the well-known frontiersman,…
RanchingHeritageMay 30, 2024
Charles Weldon "Tooter" Cannon in his saddle shop. Born in Dickens County in 1915 and…
RanchingHeritageApril 10, 2024
Young wildlife biologists gathered in the Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center on Saturday, April…
RanchingHeritageApril 10, 2024
Last updated: March 4, 2024 at 3 p.m. The Smokehouse Creek Fire has surged to…
RanchingHeritageFebruary 29, 2024
Canadian musician Corb Lund has always marched to the beat of his own drummer—but in…
RanchingHeritageFebruary 16, 2024
King’s Saddlery, a family-owned and operated business based in Sheridan, Wyoming, has supported and celebrated…
RanchingHeritageJanuary 5, 2024
We couldn't have asked for a better 45th Annual Candlelight at the Ranch! Almost 8,000…
RanchingHeritageDecember 14, 2023
Preeminent Western artist Harold "H" Holden passed away Dec. 6, 2023, at the age of…
RanchingHeritageDecember 7, 2023
LUBBOCK, TEXAS -- The National Ranching Heritage Center (NRHC) on the Texas Tech University campus…
RanchingHeritageDecember 4, 2023
Many thanks are in order, to those both near and far, for making the 45th…
RanchingHeritageNovember 14, 2023
Tracing the roots of today's cow ponies to their first American-born sire.
RanchingHeritageOctober 27, 2023
It seems like just the other day we were sharing photos from the groundbreaking ceremony.
RanchingHeritageOctober 24, 2023
Learn the frontier story behind National Golden Spur Award recipient Craig Haythorn’s Nebraska roots and…
RanchingHeritageOctober 3, 2023
The National Golden Spur Award and the Ranching Heritage Association Working Cowboy Award are the…
RanchingHeritageOctober 2, 2023
2023 Year in Review at the Ranch NRHC Breaks Ground, Constructs the Cash Family Ranch Life…
RanchingHeritageOctober 2, 2023
The 2023 Working Cowboy Award recipient, Jimbo Humphreys, shares the versatile and self-sufficient ethos that…
RanchingHeritageSeptember 29, 2023
The Honors celebrate the American rancher and those continuing the incredible ranching story. Proceeds benefit…
RanchingHeritageSeptember 14, 2023
Understand the basics of the Great Plains' primary water source, the Ogallala Aquifer.
RanchingHeritageAugust 20, 2023
A selection of drawings from late, great California cowboy artist Jo Mora.
RanchingHeritageAugust 11, 2023
Ranch Verse was all it was made out to be: authentic, compelling and insightful. Poetry, songs and stories flowed…
RanchingHeritageAugust 11, 2023
October 13-21 | Schedule of Events & Details Enjoy a fun-filled week of family-friendly activities…
RanchingHeritageAugust 9, 2023
Sharing the message of ranching and agriculture through the Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center.
RanchingHeritageAugust 8, 2023
This collection will be a cornerstone for the revitalization of traditional Western Arts at the…
RanchingHeritageAugust 4, 2023
Ranch Week was spent revisiting the roots of ranching and honoring cowboying traditions. Campers learned…
RanchingHeritageJuly 27, 2023
By Ross Hecox Uncomfortable silence fell across the room as Minnie Lou Ottinger and Rusty…
RanchingHeritageJuly 21, 2023
Photograph by Ross Hecox James “Jimbo” Humphreys, Jr., a West Texas cowboy who has excelled…
RanchingHeritageJuly 11, 2023
Although it represents a bygone era of wild broncs and hard-nosed cowboys, the snubbing post…
RanchingHeritageJuly 5, 2023
How busing beef has changed through the decades. By Bob Welch Joseph McCoy is rightly…
RanchingHeritageJuly 5, 2023
One veteran in Montana is taking a unique approach to giving his fellow soldiers a…
RanchingHeritageJuly 1, 2023
The dream, development and execution of the Cash Family Ranch Life Learning Center took a…
RanchingHeritageJune 28, 2023
A beautiful summer night, excellent tunes, two-steppin' around the dance floor, visiting with old friends…
RanchingHeritageJune 12, 2023
Barry Guillory of Louisiana employs traditional methods to build bits and spurs, fulfilling a lifelong…
RanchingHeritageJune 9, 2023
Craig Haythorn, one of the most respected ranchers and horsemen in the nation, will receive…
RanchingHeritageJune 1, 2023
How Colorado formed the first stock organization and influenced the future of a state.
RanchingHeritageMay 26, 2023
Special guests will join Andy Hedges for a storytelling, poetry & song symposium followed by…
RanchingHeritageMay 17, 2023
Western art collectors and admirers will have the opportunity to peruse art and gear by…
RanchingHeritageMay 2, 2023
Fashionable and functional, the wild rag is a stable of the cowboy wardrobe.
RanchingHeritageApril 20, 2023
Ranch Day is a crowd-pleaser for both the young and young at heart as horses,…
RanchingHeritageApril 17, 2023
Answering "what was the first ranch in Texas?" is not easy as it seems; it…
RanchingHeritageApril 16, 2023
The Jowell House provides a fascinating look at how settlers dealt with the dangers of…
RanchingHeritageApril 16, 2023
Young wildlife biologists gathered at the Ranch on Saturday, April 1, to learn all about…
RanchingHeritageApril 10, 2023
An exhibit opening for the new exhibit, King Ranch–Legacy in Art, will take place Friday,…
RanchingHeritageFebruary 7, 2023
Everybody is talking carbon credits. Are they right for your operation?
RanchingHeritageFebruary 3, 2023
By next summer, visitors can visit the headquarters of Hank the Cowdog’s ranch to learn…
RanchingHeritageJanuary 31, 2023
The ups and downs of ranching characterize the history of the RO, a Texas Panhandle…
RanchingHeritageJanuary 27, 2023
Some stories live in infamy. Others in legend. Some in obscurity. The story of a Roaring…
RanchingHeritageJanuary 20, 2023
An essay by John R. Erickson Charles Goodnight, founder of the JA Ranch in Palo…
RanchingHeritageJanuary 10, 2023
A bygone community teaches important lessons to modern cattle ranchers.
RanchingHeritageJanuary 6, 2023
Provided by the Kansas Historical Society Harriet E. Adams (1867-1938) wrote this reminiscence in 1928…
RanchingHeritageDecember 23, 2022
Thank you for celebrating the holidays at the 44th Annual Candlelight at the Ranch that…
RanchingHeritageDecember 19, 2022
By Jim Bret Campbell, Executive Director I am reminded daily of the commitment and dedication…
RanchingHeritageDecember 9, 2022
Visitors will experience a frontier Christmas from 6:30-9 p.m. Dec. 9-10 when the National Ranching…
RanchingHeritageDecember 8, 2022
Mark Kirkpatrick takes over the reins of the Ranching Heritage Association.
RanchingHeritageDecember 2, 2022
Dr. Glenn Blodgett, who managed the 6666's horse division for 40 years, has passed away.…
RanchingHeritageNovember 21, 2022
By Robin Gilliam Five small white headstones enclosed by an iron fence rest in the…
RanchingHeritageNovember 4, 2022
“The people are the best part of ranching – the cowboys, cowgirls and the people…
RanchingHeritageNovember 4, 2022
It was a beautiful morning to gather with friends for a hearty home-cooked chuck wagon…
RanchingHeritageOctober 25, 2022
Thank you to all who made the 44th National Golden Spur and Ranching Heritage Association…
RanchingHeritageOctober 24, 2022
Thank you to all who attended in person and online for the groundbreaking ceremony for…
RanchingHeritageOctober 21, 2022
Martin B. Lloyd came to Texas shortly after the Civil War and quickly established himself…
RanchingHeritageOctober 21, 2022
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Ranch Life Learning Center featuring Hank the Cowdog took place…
RanchingHeritageOctober 17, 2022
By Phil Livingston Republished with permission from American Cowboy magazine 1519–1700s After the Spanish arrived…
RanchingHeritageOctober 13, 2022
Posted by Texas Tech Today | Oct. 11, 2022 Click here to read the original…
RanchingHeritageOctober 12, 2022
From humble beginnings, a lone Easterner created something that has become iconic with the frontier…
RanchingHeritageOctober 7, 2022
By Bob Welch Everyone who reads the pages of Ranch Record is drawn to the…
RanchingHeritageSeptember 30, 2022
By Sue Hancock Jones Wes O’Neal began breaking broncs when he was 13 years old,…
RanchingHeritageSeptember 23, 2022
By the National Cattleman's Beef Association The 2022 National Golden Spur honoree may not have…
RanchingHeritageSeptember 19, 2022
By Bob Welch and Sue Hancock Jones Cynthia Ann Parker’s kidnapping in 1836 was the…
RanchingHeritageSeptember 10, 2022
The plains are covered with reminders that it is possible to work hard every day,…
RanchingHeritageSeptember 9, 2022
By Jim Bret Campbell, NRHC Executive Director Jim Bret Campbell, Executive Director You might have…
RanchingHeritageSeptember 8, 2022
A Kansas historical marker describes “the Caldwell of the past” as home to gunslingers, cowboys,…
RanchingHeritageSeptember 3, 2022
For 150 years, the Spanish Ranch has been testing the mettle of its cowboys.
RanchingHeritageAugust 26, 2022
Though born a Swede in 1816, S.M. Swenson embodied the American dream and ultimately owned…
RanchingHeritageAugust 19, 2022
Wes O’Neal, a Texas cowboy who has worked on three of the largest and best-known…
RanchingHeritageAugust 18, 2022
Horses are quick to grab history’s glamour and glory, leaving little attention for their homelier,…
RanchingHeritageAugust 12, 2022
Across the frontier of the cattleman’s Old West, the largest ranch under one fence was…
RanchingHeritageAugust 5, 2022
Clark Willingham is the 2022 recipient of the National Golden Spur Award, recognizing his hard…
RanchingHeritageAugust 2, 2022
After beginning as a folk singer in the 1960s, Ian Tyson found his true home…
RanchingHeritageJuly 29, 2022
Bob Welch grew up ranching. It just took him a little while to get back…
RanchingHeritageJuly 22, 2022
Cowboy Artists of America artists Jason Scull and Brandon Bailey will hold a three-day Western…
RanchingHeritageJuly 11, 2022
The gift from The Cash Foundation serves as the lead gift to help build The…
RanchingHeritageJune 30, 2022
Beautiful day. Beautiful art. Excellent company. Excellent food. Thank you all for your support—the Summer…
RanchingHeritageJune 21, 2022
Western art and gear collectors will have an opportunity to purchase new art pieces and…
RanchingHeritageMay 12, 2022
As a rancher, horsewoman, educator and philanthropist, Helen left an indelible mark on the ranching…
RanchingHeritageMay 9, 2022
By Dr. Scott White A map of Alta California missions and ranchos. Image courtesy of…
RanchingHeritageMay 6, 2022
Young wildlife biologists gathered at the Ranch on Saturday, April 30, to learn all about…
RanchingHeritageMay 3, 2022
Becoming one of the oldest family-owned continuously operating ranches in Colorado comes with its fair…
RanchingHeritageApril 15, 2022
It is because of people like you who support the mission of the National Ranching…
RanchingHeritageApril 5, 2022
Oil & Ranching is the newest exhibit located in the Mary Belle Macy Gallery at…
RanchingHeritageMarch 14, 2022
As a young man in the 1870s, Wallace worked in the fields chopping and plowing…
RanchingHeritageFebruary 24, 2022
From Frenchman to American rancher, Pierre Wibaux left the security of his family’s successful textile…
RanchingHeritageFebruary 18, 2022
By Stephen Zimmer S. Omar Barker once described himself as the “cowboy’s poet, not a…
RanchingHeritageFebruary 17, 2022
Clement Vann Rogers began his ranch with a few supplies, 25 Longhorns cows, a bull,…
RanchingHeritageFebruary 12, 2022
From the time Will Rogers was a boy, he had two consuming interests: horses and…
RanchingHeritageFebruary 9, 2022
Before he became famous, Will James was an authentic working cowboy.
RanchingHeritageFebruary 2, 2022
Gold prospectors headed for California during the 1840s found a route along the southern end…
RanchingHeritageJanuary 29, 2022
If ending the Indian Wars is what allowed the Southern Plains to be the last…
RanchingHeritageJanuary 28, 2022
More than three-quarters of a century after his death, people still talk about the brown…
RanchingHeritageJanuary 21, 2022
The sprawling Texas ranch isn't just a silver screen set where Jimmy gets sent to…
RanchingHeritageJanuary 19, 2022
SaddleUP, a photography and film exhibition documenting a contemporary story of Texas ranchers, will open…
RanchingHeritageJanuary 14, 2022
L’Amour’s novel Hondo is considered among the 25 best Western novels of all time. One…
RanchingHeritageJanuary 12, 2022
Four generations of volunteers have made Candlelight at the Ranch a Lubbock tradition as thousands…
RanchingHeritageDecember 10, 2021
Cowboy Artist Charles M. Russell Lived What He Painted Sue Hancock Jones Because of Charles…
digitalbaseAugust 19, 2021
Do You Ever Get ‘Buffalo Bill’ and ‘Wild Bill’ Confused? By Sue Hancock Jones All…
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